Cosmetics And Perfumes In The Roman World

Author : Susan Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780752440989
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmetics & Perfumes in the Roman World written by Susan Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a pioneering work the author draws on literary, non-literary, visual and archaeological evidence to show the importance of cosmetics and perfumes for health, ideas of beauty, social status, as a demonstration of wealth and luxury, and as an expression of gender.

Author : Mikhal Dayagi-Mendeles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfumes and Cosmetics in the Ancient World written by Mikhal Dayagi-Mendeles and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Associate Professor Department of History Jonathan Edmondson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802093191
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture written by Associate Professor Department of History Jonathan Edmondson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period from 200 BCE-400 CE. Editors Jonathan Edmondson and Alison Keith and the contributors to this volume explore the diffusion of Roman dress protocols at Rome and in the Roman imperial context by looking at Rome's North African provinces in particular, a focus that previous studies have overlooked or dealt with only in passing. Another unique aspect of this collection is that it goes beyond the male elite to address a wider spectrum of Roman society. Chapters deal with such topics as masculine attire, strategies for self-expression for Roman women within a dress code prescribed by a patriarchal culture, and the complex dynamics of dress in imperial Roman culture, both literary and artistic. This volume further investigates the literary, legal, and iconographic evidence to provide anthropologically-informed readings of Roman clothing. This collection of original essays employs a range of methodological approaches - historical, literary critical, philological, art historical, sociological and anthropological - to offer a thorough discussion of one of the most central issues in Roman culture.

Author : James B. Tschen-Emmons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610696204
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artifacts from Ancient Rome written by James B. Tschen-Emmons and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Roman objects and artifacts are properly analyzed, they serve as valuable primary sources for learning about ancient history. This book provides the guidance and relevant historical context students need to see relics as evidence of long-past events and society. Artifacts from Ancient Rome is a unique social history that explores major aspects of daily life in a long-ago era via images of physical objects and historical information about these items. This book also affords "hands-on training" on how to approach primary sources. The author—a historian also trained as an archaeologist—begins by explaining the concept of using artifacts to understand and "see" the past and providing a primer for effectively analyzing artifacts. Entries on the artifacts follow, with each containing an introduction, a description of the artifact, an explanation of its significance, and a list of further sources of information. Readers of the book will not only gain a composite impression of daily life in ancient Rome through the study of artifacts from domestic life, religion, war, transportation, entertainment, and more, but will also learn how to best understand and analyze primary sources for learning.

Author : Catharine Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521893893
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome written by Catharine Edwards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decadence and depravity of the ancient Romans are a commonplace of serious history, popular novels and spectacular films. This book is concerned not with the question of how immoral the ancient Romans were but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immorality. The modern image of immoral Rome derives from ancient accounts which are largely critical rather than celebratory. Upper-class Romans habitually accused one another of the most lurid sexual and sumptuary improprieties. Historians and moralists lamented the vices of their contemporaries and mourned for the virtues of a vanished age. Far from being empty commonplaces these assertions constituted a powerful discourse through which Romans negotiated conflicts and tensions in their social and political order. This study proceeds by a detailed examination of a wide range of ancient texts (all of which are translated) exploring the dynamics of their rhetoric, as well as the ends to which they were deployed. Roman moralising discourse, the author suggests, may be seen as especially concerned with the articulation of anxieties about gender, social status and political power. Individual chapters focus on adultery, effeminacy, the immorality of the Roman theatre, luxurious buildings and the dangers of pleasure. This book should appeal to students and scholars of classical literature and ancient history. It will also attract anthropologists and social and cultural historians.

Author : Eugene Rimmel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Perfumes written by Eugene Rimmel and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michal Dayagi-Mendels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfumes and Cosmetics in the Ancient World written by Michal Dayagi-Mendels and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Leen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440862893
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Things Ancient Rome [2 volumes] written by Anne Leen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through roughly 160 alphabetically arranged reference entries, this book surveys the material culture and social institutions of Ancient Rome. Ancient Rome was one of the great civilizations of antiquity. Honoring the contributions of their cultural forebearers-who included Etruscans, Asians, and Egyptians as well as Greeks-Roman artists, writers, and thinkers freely borrowed where tradition dictated and innovated where personal talent and imagination directed, forging a unique creative experience that formed the basis of Western European artistic, literary, and philosophical production for 2,000 years. While other reference works typically examine battles and politicians, this book focuses on Roman social history and daily life, painting a detailed picture of the material culture and social institutions of Ancient Rome. A timeline highlights key events, while an overview essay surveys the achievements of the Romans. Reference entries provide objective information about art, architecture, literature, commerce, transportation, government, religion, and other topics related to Roman life. Each entry provides cross-references and suggestions for further reading, and some provide sidebars of interesting facts along with excerpts from primary source documents. The book closes with a selected, general bibliography of resources suitable for student research.

Author : Luke Lavan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047433041
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology in Transition A.D. 300-650 written by Luke Lavan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines technology in late antiquity. Papers explore agriculture, production, engineering and building technologies, and include a bibliographic essay.

Author : N. Groom
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780751404036
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Perfume Handbook written by N. Groom and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-06-30 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of this unique book established itself as an unparalleled source of information on perfume. Although it is primarily aimed at perfumers and others in the perfume industry, it has also found substantial sales among a wide range of others including aromatherapists, botanists, and many others who wanted to learn more about this faceted subject. The new edition is now aimed squarely at perfumery marketing specialists and others in the industry world-wide and covers in particular the needs of publicity/advertising teams and journalists, together with sales people and consultants at the counters who like to have a wide range of information at their fingertips. Changes include: an expansion of the number of profiles of the perfume houses, and of the 50 or so new perfumes worthy of record which have been launched since the previous edition. There is also increased coverage of the essences and the plants and other material from which they are derived. Coverage of perfume containers is substantially expanded and linked to other parts of the book.